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Best Ad ever
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‘Be like Maradona – give up coke’[…]

Sack This Sick Joke Now
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Jonathon Ross is a fine entertainment television presenter. I have no complaints with him on that part. But the fact that he fronts the only mainstream TV film review program is an absolute joke. Of late Film (Insert Year Here) has turned into sleb p[…]

The Afterlife Of Pop
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Frank Kogan’s Real Punks Don’t Wear Black is a devastatingly good book. The first evening I read it I found that it shook me up a lot – I recognised the ideals and ideas Frank was chasing, even if I couldn’t have articulated t[…]

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Blak Out
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Brand Republic brings news of 2006’s first big brand extension clash: both Coke and Pepsi are bringing out coffee-flavoured fizzy drinks at the start of next year.

Coke’s offering is Coca Cola Blak, as seen in this picture – but on[…]

Smiley Smile
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Mona Lisa ‘definitely smiling’
The “computers analyse art” story is perhaps second only to the “scientists have discovered an formula” story in the science spacefiller stakes. Here we see “emotion recognition[…]

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